Dear Tannhauser:

Your Catholic  beliefs are dead, you wrote. Brings me to the title of your thread: “My persona is dying”-

I often look again at definitions of words to get more out of them. First definition of persona I came across this morning: “the aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others”-

understandably then,  you presented yourself as a Catholic in the past, and you were perceived as Catholic by others, and you are no longer presenting that or perceived as that, then indeed, your person is dying or is dead.

I like your tao/ nature quote. I see a lot of truth in nature. “‘no leaf is spared because of its beauty, no flower because of its fragrance”- true, thing is, there is no one to do the sparing, I am thinking.

anita